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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Chapter
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The representing relation that constitutes a picture is itself part of the picture.
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The representing relation that constitutes a picture is itself part of the picture.
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- Picture Theory of Language
The representing relation is intrinsic to the picture, not external.
Key passages
“According to this view the representing relation which makes it a picture, also belongs to the picture.”
The relation that allows a picture to represent something is itself a part of the picture.
Clarifies that the pictorial form includes the relation of representation.
